Game of Thrones’ Noah Taylor on Locke, Jaime Lannister’s Hand, and Being a TV-Less Luddite

Game of Thrones’ Noah Taylor on Locke, Jaime Lannister’s Hand, and Being a TV-Less Luddite

When we were first introduced to Locke on Game of Thrones, he was a stand-in for Vargo Hoat, the lispy mercenary aligned with Roose Bolton who orders Jaime Lannister’s sword hand to be chopped off in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series. Locke completed that dirty deed last season and then diverged wildly from Hoat’s arc from the novels, returning this season to do more of Bolton’s bidding. Last week, he turned up at the Wall, where he threw in with an oblivious Jon Snow and, secretly on a mission to find and kill Bran Stark, volunteered for the attack on Craster’s Keep. Turn back now if you haven't seen the latest episode of Game of Thrones — spoilers ahead. Read More...